Sean Michael Kerner

LAS VEGAS — As the world moves to an all-IP infrastructure for both voice and data, the role of the traditional desktop phone may well be changing. In a standing-room-only session here at Interop, representatives from Avaya, Cisco and Microsoft debated the future of the phone, which is, after all, now just another IP endpoint. […]

LAS VEGAS — Did you know that the growth of networking spending is outpacing all other sectors of IT? Abner Germanow, director of enterprise networking at IDC, gave his reasons why to a standing-room only audience during a morning session here at Interop. According to Germanow’s IDC data, enterprise networking growth was 17 percent in […]

LAS VEGAS — The once proud but lately battered Nortel Networks is back. At least that’s what Mike Zafirovski, president and CEO of Nortel, would have attendees of this week’s Interop show believe. In a morning keynote address here, Zafirovski presented his vision for Nortel and the broader networking industry. For Nortel, the key trend […]

LAS VEGAS — In a town where gambling is the primary industry, Ethernet supporters want to prove it’s never a good idea to bet against the 30-year-old technology. That is the goal of the year-old Ethernet Alliance, a multi-vendor group that promotes and demonstrates the latest and greatest in Ethernet standards technology. At its birthday […]

The Xen open source project released Xen 3.1 hypervisor with a little help from Intel, IBM, Novell, VA Linux (Japan), HP, Fujitsu, SGI, Red Hat, AMD, Sun, Unisys and the National Security Agency. Xen 3.1 extends the open source virtualization technology with new API support, improved 64-bit paravirtualization and a feature for moving virtual machines […]

LAS VEGAS — For Cisco CEO and President John Chambers, social networking isn’t just for kids. It’s for business and it’s the collaborative model that will propel productivity. At last year’s Interop, Chambers shared his vision of the network as the platform. At this year’s Interop kickoff, he expanded the vision to version 2.0, or […]

LAS VEGAS — Less than a week after admitting that a disk with sensitive employee information was lost or stolen, Alcatel-Lucent  today introduced a networking card designed to lock in data on laptops. Alcatel-Lucent unveiled the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian at the 2007 Interop networking show in Las Vegas, though the company first previewed […]

The wide-area network (WAN)  acceleration market is a crowded space, with vendors of all sizes claiming their wares do a better job of accelerating traffic between locations. However, most WAN acceleration products are limited because they only help users that are actually inside the office branch Remote workers outside of the office tend to get […]

The network access control (NAC) landscape is about to change on news today that Microsoft NAP and standards organization Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) are now interoperable. The market for NAC is a competitive one, with the majority of solutions being compatible with one of three overriding frameworks: Cisco NAC, NAP or TNC. […]

Two big visions of networking will collide next week as networking vendors of all stripes and sizes descend on Las Vegas for Interop 2007. Cisco CEO and Chairman John Chambers offered a prophetic vision of the network as the platform at last year’s Interop show in Vegas. The highlight of the New York Interop event […]

The Republic of Estonia is under a massive cyber onslaught that apparently is targeting government servers in a broad-based distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. Quantitative data points the finger at a broadly based attack, but speculation is rampant that the Russian government is behind it. Data from Arbor Networks Active Threat Level Analysis System […]

The IPv4 address space is finite and nearing exhaustion. The answer is IPv6 , but that’s for the federal government and big business to deal with and is not something that smaller enterprise or even home office users can do anything about, right? Not so fast. A 20-person startup called Hexago is set to debut […]